Berkeley Arts Festival Calendar

07/21/2013

Family Workshop: Made and Found Instruments with Thingamajigs

Thingamajigs
Bring the whole family to this midday instrument workshop and learn how to make music with materials found in our everyday environment. Members of the Thingamajigs Performance Group will be on hand to demonstrate their unique instruments.

$7; free for BAM/PFA members and Cal students, faculty, and staff.

12 noon to 2pm, Berkeley Art Museum 2626 Bancroft Way

Jacob Peck - Andrew Jamieson Opera

8 pm
Jacob Peck solo guitar

Jakob Pek is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and poet whose work brings together many realms, traditions, and languages into a single continuum of music. His solo performances interweave the piano, percussion, guitar, and spoken word into a seamless unfolding of sound, song, and silence. Born in Vancouver, B.C., raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, and currently residing in Oakland, California, Jakob's work offers listeners excursions into and out of the unimaginable while presenting re-envisioned interpretations of traditional musics and insights into the contemporary culture of the American West Coast.

9 pm
Andrew Jamieson - Opera in Progress

Karl Evangelista - guitar
Molly Shapiro - voice
Christina Stanley - violin, voice
Joshua Marshall - tenor saxophone
Mia Bella D'Augelli - violin
Andrew Jamieson - piano
Robert Lopez - percussion

This set features a few scenes from an opera in progress about Jim Jones' Peoples Temple just before their move to Jonestown Guyana which led to their tragic massacre. http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/JonestownReport/Volume14/Jamieson.htm

Molly Shapiro and Christina Stanley will represent members and leaders of the Peoples Temple movement. They convey both the inspiring strengths and disturbing faults of their unique community dynamic in depicting testimonies, sermons and business meetings.

8pm to 10:30pm, 2133 University Ave. Berkeley

David Thom presents Jimmy Martin Night!

$14.50 advance / $16.50 at door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org

8pm, Freight and Salvagev Coffee House, 2020 Addison